Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Assignments

There will be four short, take-home assignments on linguistic
analysis. Each assignment is worth 5% of the final module mark.
These will be `ticked' rather than graded: i.e., for each assignment,
100% of the mark is awarded for satisfactory completion
and 0% for
inadequate work or failure to submit.
This does NOT mean that the answers have to be completely `correct'
(there is anyway often genuine disagreement on
some aspects linguistic analyses),
just that a reasonable attempt has been made.
These assignments should be handed to
student administration before 10am on the deadline day.

Practicals

Practical Week 6: (6 hours) PoS tag, chunk, and/or perform NER on
a designated text with one or more provided tools. Evaluate the
performance of the tools quantitatively and qualitatively.

Practical Week 8: (6 hours) Parse a designated set of sentences
with one or more provided tools, to yield representations of their
grammatical relations, phrase structure and/or logical forms.
Evaluate the performance of the tools quantitatively and
qualitatively.

Handouts describing each practical in more detail will be provided at
the beginning of weeks 6 and 8.

There will be an assessed practical report based on the practicals
described above. The practical report will consist of a description of
the work done of not more than 5000 words. It will contribute 80% of
the final module mark.
The deadline for handing in completed reports
will be 18 January 2013, 4pm.